malva

malva (plural malvas)

1. A plant of the genus Malva, a mallow.
   • 1989, Country Life, page 235:

     Another malva to note is M. moschata Alba, the white form of our native musk mallow.

   • 2000, Rosalind Creasy, Edible Mexican Garden, Tuttle Publishing (→ISBN), page 59:

     How to prepare: Cook the malvas the same way as amaranth and most other greens in Mexico are prepared[,] that is, briefly cooked with tomatoes or tomatillos and onions ...

   • 2004, Frances Manos, Midwest Cottage Gardening, Big Earth Publishing (→ISBN), page 79:

     If your hollyhocks are attacked by rust, and if hibiscus flowers are too tropical looking and gaudy for your taste, investigate another branch of the mallow family — the malvas. [...] This spring I started seeds of another malva named M. sylvestris 'Mauritiana', and every seed came up.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmalva/
• Hyphenation: mal‧va
• Rhymes: -alva

malva (accusative singular malvan, plural malvaj, accusative plural malvajn)

1. mauve colored
   mauve colour:  
2. related to a mallow plant

• malvo (“malve”)

malva

1. mallow (flowering plant in the taxonomic family Malvaceae, especially in the genus Malva)

• Valma

From Latin malva, of Semitic origin.

malva f (plural malve)

1. mallow (plant)

malva m (invariable)

1. mauve

malva (invariable)

1. mauve

• malvone / malvarosa

From Semitic; compare Hebrew מַלּוּחַ‎ (malúakh). Related to Ancient Greek μαλάχη (malákhē).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmal.wa/, [ˈmaɫ.wa]

malva f (genitive malvae); first declension

1. a mallow plant

First declension.

• malvāceus

• malva in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• malva in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• malva in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• malva in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

From Latin malva, of Semitic origin.

malva f (plural malvas)

1. mallow (any plant of the family Malvaceae)

From Latin malva, of Semitic origin.

malva f (plural malvas)

1. mallow
2. mauve

• criar malvas

malva (plural malvas)

1. mauve

malva c

1. mallow

• läkemalva
• praktmalva
• malvaväxter